Christian Carnival 309

The carnival is back in town and we’ve had another great response this week. It’s always wonderful to see some first timers joining the carnival as well as some of the regulars at their thought provoking best.

The weekly Christian Carnival is an opportunity for Christian blog writers to share their best posts from the previous week. The topic of the post doesn’t necessarily have to focus on Christianity but it must reflect a Christian worldview, and the writer must be Christian to qualify.

As always it’s a real honour to be able to present such a diverse range of great posts.

Please take the time to read through each post … it’s worth it. You might also like to link to this week’s carnival so that your blog readers can enjoy the variety of styles and thought. Another way to spread the word about the Christian Carnival is to click any of the buttons below this post to share the carnival on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon or any of the other sites represented.

Matt at MandM says, “Taken in isolation, and interpreted in a strict literal fashion, the book of Joshua appears to state that God commanded Genocide. Critics of Christianity claim that this places the Christian in a rationally inconsistent position. I contend that when the text is read in its literary and textual context this conclusion is far from evident and is, in fact, rather questionable.” You can read more at the post Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites.

Suicide is always difficult to deal with. Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda is a very personal post by Shperical from At the Center presenting one man’s response to some of the questions that are part of having a family member take their own life.

In “The True Image”, Philip Edgcumbe Hughes claims that ‘good’ can exist apart from -any- presence of evil. Steven from You Can’t Mean That! challenges this assertion by making a distinction within usages of ‘good’ as an abstract concept in the post Good Without Evil?

Christopher Wright wants to tie sinful and self-interested love of mammon with political and economic ideologies, but does he overstate his point? That’s Jeremy Pierce’s topic for the carnival this week with his post Christopher Wright on the Ideology of Mammon at Parableman.

January 2 was “Palindrome Day” in many parts of the world. What’s a Palindrome Day and what could it have to do with the Christian faith? Find out by reading Tom Gilson’s post Happy Palindrome Day! at Thinking Christian.

If you’re a Christian and you missed out this week, how about choosing something to contribute for next week’s edition? It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, just a post that outlines your point of view or is designed to get others thinking. Being part of the carnival could be a great way to gain a little extra traffic at your blog.

Hey Rodney – I just wanted to thank you for the inclusion in this carnival. You really picked out some high-quality articles and particularly enjoyed the Herman Bavinck and Sharing Time, Talent, and Treasure articles interesting! Thanks again for the include!